Religion and the Postsecular Challenge in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: A Review of Atone: Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation

摘要

Reflections on the role of religion in the fields of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and reconciliation studies have steadily increased over the last two decades. In this literature, reconciliation is often understood as a set of practices and processes aimed at restoring broken relationships so that a society can move from a divided past to a shared future, learning to live nonviolently with difference (Abu-Nimer, 2001; Darby, 2010; Lederach, 1997). Reconciliation processes involve personal, communal, social, and institutional initiatives in which community members across a society work to restore peaceful relationships with former enemies. They explore the difficult task of self- and other-identity redefinition, recognizing that identities are not static but dynamic, fragmented, hybrid, and therefore open to transformation (Abu-Nimer & Seidel, 2015).